skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware before 2004 so saying "platform independence" makes my head roll incredulously. But that's probably because the first things I think of are exclusive games and pre-streaming times movies and shows, although I always suspected that there must be some rich peoples TV & Radio that the rest of the us never gets to see or hear ^^ ...

Anyways. The industries can't build platform independent anymore. That's why indie and open source are such a thing in their domains.

And technically, they must be paired with an *absolute* abstinence from mainstream platforms and 2Big Corps in order to keep the subtext and the intended and unintended effects and side-effects of the "brainwash" away, as well as those gangbanging bytes and abstractions, from ads, the messages and the code. Otherwise the cancer spreads in bits and various low voltages over time and through the tiniest cracks in the systems, the brains and the minds.

All digital space is ionized. Channels build up fast and never really dissipate but almost nobody backtracks their origin and mechanisms of action anymore, even though reverse engineering is a thing; just not in the psycho-social and, meh, let's call it neuro-space.

Prediction and prediction markets are thing, though, as are markets for variations/mutations of the mind-virus and, not to forget, markets for methods of conformity enforcement and manipulation of teens and other current and future consumers.

Fuck that shit but that's, mostly, why nothing platform independent will ever happen again. Sabotage of any organic behavior and decision making.
The chance of a hash colliding is near 0%. The hashes are for some of the worst content out there, its not trying to detect anything else.

Even so a human is in the loop to review what got a hit. Which is exactly currently happens now.
How exactly did the EU punish Britain?

Britain was by far the most annoying of the two during the whole negotiation and didn’t even play fair. The Home Office is currently being sued by the EU for not respecting its engagements related to foreign nationals.

The current situation is not punishment. The UK wanted to leave the single market and is now out of the single market. Turns out that leaving a common market including your main import and export partners is somehow disastrous for your economy. Who could have guessed? Certainly not the experts who spent months explaining at length to the UK population before the referendum.
Proprietary silicon ICs and dubious marketing claims? Let's fight those [video]
It allows you to emulate MS-DOS or other legacy 16/32-bit operating systems on any supported hardware, such as ARM.
Can we see the interoperability requests that meta submitted?
That would clarify if the shade is legit.
Finally going to have proper inflow of training data for 3D & robotics. 3D has its LLM moment. Simulation gets a major brain boost it’s so janky to make scenes rn.

Early research on vaccines to help the body synthesize or remove small particles like plastics and pollutants.

An update on mandatory nutrition labels.

Devastating cyberphysical infrastructure incident due to natural disaster or hack. We get through it with love and grace, to everyone’s surprise.

I get into grad school, I hope.
> If it’s for the children, then giving up our civil liberties is a small price to pay.

All your pictures and videos are currently scanned. What civil liberty did their approach change in that?
SP500 keeps going.
Could you motivate someone to do those fixes?
Will the city / state be lowering the assessed property taxes accordingly?
On macos (maybe tiger or leopard era), apple used to pop up a crash dialog, with a "send to apple?" prompt. And you could say no.

they did away with that.
Citation needed. As the latest news suggests the opposite.
I'm in NY. Possession of a controlled substance is a class A misdemeanor here[0], which can carry a maximum prison sentence of 1 year.

0: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/220.03
It's a neat trick, and could be very useful on microcontrollers which doesn't have hardware division but does have hardware multiplication.
Came here with the same reflection. Also the article doesn’t mention how Solsthelion is supposed to be pronounced, and I guess most English speaker meeting the word in the wild would more likely pronounce th as /ð/.

Happy Peristice is also close to apéritif, which is great for a celebration solicitation.
Phone numbers only work that way due to laws requiring number portability. Otherwise the provider is encoded in the number range.
> (i.e. is >> a greater than, or closing two template expressions?)

I thought it was a pointer-dereference signifier(, or maybe an object-string-stream thingy)? If you mean C++, that is.
This is Nikon (and Mitsubishi). It will really work, but they hold their cards close to their chest, and embargo sample images (they don't like low-quality images getting out). They probably plan something splashy for CES.

CES should be interesting, this year.
The fact that replies of paid accounts come first killed it for me.
Paid accounts' posts are more often than not less interesting.
Uhhhhh obviously managing chronic disease burden is a core feature of a functional healthcare system.

One of the strongest levers we have to improve the “inputs” you’re describing is a better primary care system. America’s has been absolutely gutted over the last 20 years by interactions of various economic and regulatory dynamics including (notably) the anti-competitive vertical integration of pay-viders and pay-vider+PBMs like UnitedHealth Group.

It is absolutely not true there aren’t system-level changes we can make in healthcare and insurance to help address this.
I guess it’s the lack of everything in a partially state owned company. Here you go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Act

They don’t really think about competition. That’s an arena for power fights, empire building and incompetence on every level. Think about software and Cariad disaster. Cars were a byproduct. Germans associated them for generations with good life and bought without thinking. I would say, until Golf 5 the cars were brilliant, advertising fun and I would buy one. But now… just another expensive car brand.
Analogies aren’t perfect, but they’re still useful. How else are you gonna explain to a grade schooler the difference between voltage and current? This article suggests no alternative.
Happy Solsthelion!
Just to be clear the "too much coverage" argument is about physical facilities and equipment, not personnel. I think everyone is in agreement that there is a shortage of medical staff.

As far as convenience vs efficiency, the argument was that to achieve the efficiencies found in other countries, which often have longer wait times for services than the US, you do have to sacrifice convenience. The US, by treating healthcare like a consumer good rather than a rationed utility, has built out excess capacity for the sake of convenience. This is, according to the argument, part of the reason we spend more on healthcare than peers. (Healthcare must always be rationed; the US does so on price rather than wait times.)
UnitedHealthcare operates in DC and all fifty states and has north of 26 million customers. Kaiser operates in eight states and DC and has around 12 million customers. It's safe to say plenty of folks use Kaiser when it's available.

The downside is that because Kaiser operates as an HMO, any specialists you need to see must be approved by your primary care physician (typically GP, ob-gyn, or uro). They have an abysmal record with mental health, and folks who need chronic non-routine care often struggle to get that care. If all you need are routine checkups, cheap prescriptions, routine immunizations, etc. they're quite competent.

Who specifically sets the prices?

Kaiser is a vertically integrated HMO. Like other HMOs, to get coverage (with a few exceptions) you need to see a provider within the (Kaiser) network. As a vertically integrated HMO the providers in the Kaiser network are all employed directly by Kaiser. So Kaiser sets the its own employee compensation.

It's worth noting that all insurance companies are required to emergency care at any provider as if it were in network. If a Kaiser member were to go to a non-Kaiser ER they would see the same cost as if they'd gone to a Kaiser ER. Whatever Kaiser pays to the out of network hospital/staff is almost certainly negotiated beforehand.
I have a really hard time understanding why we as a society (or various societies) are okay these kinds of things.

Sure, I understand that there is little I can do about it, but why are powerful people okay with their car company or phone company knowing everything about them?

Are people in California and the EU at least covered by data privacy laws?
I like retro computing - and this ain’t it. This is consultants gouging their clients, and a cultish “we don’t touch that” inherited through generations of management.

To be clear, parts of it are in COBOL. Other bits are in RPG, others yet in PL/1, and then a generous application of java, c++, windows shell scripts, unix shell scripts, and it’s all held together with TSVs.

It’s more like hoarding than anything else - “don’t touch that, it might be useful, I don’t know, just leave it as it is, we’ll get eleven new servers for whatever it is that it does”

In the end we gave them a pile of python that ingested malformatted EDIs that another system made and spat out TSVs so that same system could then not trip over its own shoelaces.
The UK complained at length about the EU for decades including educated people so much so that they decided to leave and are now out.

Both the far right and far left opposes the EU openly in France. Even amongst EU supporters there is a fair deal of criticisms levelled at the organisation.

I think your alleged taboo is very much self imposed.
You're missing that this is not designed as a tool for photographers, but rather in a collaboration with Mitsubishi aimed at better situational awareness for vehicle operators. The headline doesn't mention this, but it's impossible to miss in the article.
Show HN: Combine AI agentic research and Podcast generation – Podfeed.ai
ECU modifications are rare (most people don't care) and car manufacturers don't lose money on it. If money gets on the table, I'm 100% sure they'll sue the workshops like John Deere did. And given the lobby VW has in Europe they can also pass some extra laws to reinforce their case.
Isn’t that what all the dating apps have been doing for decades?
Related video by Steve Mould about "Spintronics" [1]

Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity

https://youtu.be/QrkiJZKJfpY

[1]: https://upperstory.com/spintronics/
The Trouble with Templeton will always haunt me for its cinematography, and for its themes of dealing with loss and moving on.

If our loved ones knew how much we suffered in their absence, they'd try to commit the greatest kindness by letting us love them a little less.

That scene when the music stops, and the lights fade out, and you see the reality that was masked from Templeton. Breaks my heart every single time.
Meta understands that in an AI agentic world, having access at the OS level is crucial.

The AI becomes significantly more useful if it understands your digital life more. Only Apple has OS level access for agentic AI but Meta wants it too.
> You can already unlock additional power in your ECU by going stage I, II or III with custom and reputable ECU modders and the car feels completely different.

Yup, especially since that many cars artificially limited to "segment" the model into more models but are basically the exact same car. Some ECU modders, at least in the EU, also play it fully legit: they'll reprogram the ECU so that you've got more power and they'll help you with the paperwork for the DIV / insurance so that it's all legal.
I think that has to do with the nuance of programming a voice based flow that works for everyone. LLMs are on a different UX bandwidth.
> while the pessimistic perspective was that your phone was now acting as a snitch on your behavior

The actual auditing doesn't happen until the file hits the cloud though. Which is what happens now.

Thanks for some voice of reason. I'm still amazed at how many are still upset about this but clearly never actually read the paper on it.
Grand Spiral NGC 5643
"Whitepaper" is guarded behind this:
https://survey.alipay.com/apps/zhiliao/n33nRj5OV

> The white paper is only available for professional developers from different industries. We need to collect your name, contact information, email address, company name, industry type, position and your download purpose to verify your identity...

That's new.
Ever since cars started having cell modems in “for emergencies” it has been clear governments are encouraging this sort of thing to enable mass population monitoring.

It is practically mandatory for manufacturers to do this.

Thanks to Starlink it is also possible for a private entity to track every device with cellular access. I don’t think people on here are ready for quite where all this goes.
Peristice is much, much better. And helps me learn which one peri- is.
On Fast Paths
Ergo S-1 – An open-source ergonomic wireless keyboard
Project description: The Ergo S-1 is a fully wireless, split ergonomic keyboard that is compatible with cherry/gateron switches and cherry/oem/dcs keycaps. It runs on the fantastic ZMK firmware.

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I made one of these a few months ago, and I'm a big fan. It's like an open-source Kinesis Advantage 360.

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Project homepage: https://wizardkeyboards.com/ergo-s-1/

Hackaday article: https://hackaday.com/2022/08/10/from-product-to-burnout-to-o...
Ignore the best car for self inflicted reasons, then get upset for not finding anything else. Where was your moral compass when you bought merc (or bmv or whatever else) when they were shoving basic necessities in higher trim packages to rip off people for years?
At the very least, for apps that require this much access, such "interoperability" should be off by default with a big warning that says:

[ ] Check here if you want to share all your data (or something more precise) with Meta. Warning: possibly insecure. Use at your own risk.
Ask HN: Is there an anti-EU sentiment from big tech?
I’ve been noticing a pattern: companies like Apple and Meta frequently blame the EU for delays in releasing features, citing vague “regulatory risks.” For instance, Apple recently delayed its “Apple Intelligence” features in Europe, attributing the decision to concerns about compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Meta has also criticized EU rules like the DMA and the Digital Services Act (DSA), claiming they could stifle innovation or jeopardize privacy. However, in most cases, these companies eventually release the features after making necessary adjustments, which makes me wonder: Are these “regulatory risks” really valid, or is it more about resisting change?

At the same time, there’s been a noticeable wave of criticism against the EU coming from US-based VCs and tech companies. Many posts claim the EU is “dying” as a tech hub, often pointing to stricter regulations and fragmented markets as reasons. While the EU undoubtedly has challenges, like limited access to growth capital and fragmented venture funding, these narratives often feel inflated.

Take USB-C as a standard, for example. Many US-based critics framed this as overreach by the EU, even though it benefits consumers and smaller tech companies by reducing proprietary lock-in. As a tech company owner myself, I see it as a win for democratization and innovation—it levels the playing field, making it easier for new entrants to compete.

It’s worth questioning if this negative sentiment is part of a coordinated effort to lobby against the EU. The lobbying budgets of major tech firms are enormous, and the stakes are high. The EU’s regulatory framework—designed to promote fair competition and protect users—directly challenges the monopolistic advantages that some companies rely on.

While Europe does need to address legitimate problems, like retaining talent and scaling startups, many of these critiques seem driven by those with vested interests rather than a genuine concern for the EU’s future. What do you think? Are these criticisms fair, or do they serve as a smokescreen for resisting necessary regulation?
Replicate Old Website
Some time ago I stumbled upon a really cool and simple website
(Not a shop, no forum, it's just a full screen GIF and some background music).
Unfortunately no contact info on the site.

I was such a big fan that I created a QR code for my Teams profile picture, linking to that website.
Can you imagine how disappointed I was when the website SSL certificate expired?

I waited, hoping the certificate might get renewed at some point.
But it never happened.

Now to my point/question: How do you feel re-creating a website, with almost the same URL?
I just want my QR code working, and I don't want my users to be irritated, when they scan the code and get an error in the browser.

To be honest, I already did it, but now my conscience bugs me.
It's not clear to me that wait times for e.g. imaging are due to insufficient staff. UC had two locations (for a city of 800,000) where I could've gotten an ultrasound. Getting waitlisted trying to find a GP isn't a staffing issue either. My solution was to patronize a medical practice that didn't accept insurance. I was able to make a same day appointment as a new patient. The lack of urgent care within the Kaiser network out here isn't a staffing issue. Kaiser simply hasn't built out clinics.

The lack of rural providers is largely a staffing issue, but once the staff go whole departments (e.g. obstetrics) get shuttered and it then becomes a larger problem than merely finding physicians.

Having been through the meat grinder a few times I don't think there's as much "convenience" as proponents of for-profit health care would like everyone to believe. Attributing the uneven distribution of care to convenience misses the mark. Profit incentivizes specialties that can charge higher prices and disincentives primary care. That's not convenience, it's profit. Again. St. Luke's.
comment on the quote in title:

... he said, being very well aware of the cost and how and to what end coders have been "normalized", "raised", "manipulated to conform", "fucked up in their heads" ...
WordPress is the exact example of the opposite of your point. WP started as the edge of a wedge. But contrary to the examples in TLA, it didn't become an everything platform deliberate and predetermined, but organical and messy.

It started as a "blogging tool" and only that - it still is to some extent in 2024: it still has traces of "blogs" in its DBA, code, templating and so on.

It was successfull exactly because of that focus. As opposed to Joomla! and Drupal and many others that never even made it. WordPress gained a "plugin system" but later than most others and far more limited. In the beginning plugins were really to customize your blog - but it was still very much a blog.

When blogging wasn't that popular anymore - relatively, it pivoted into more of a brochureware CMS by leveraging the plugin system, but core was very much still a blog. I can't recall how many requests I had from customers to "remove this confusing blog-thing, we don't use that don't we". It could not be removed.

Then, after a while, it became the everything CMS. Slowly and rediculously clumsy. It still is. It's far worse at "being a webshop" than almost all dedicated webshop software one can choose instead. It's rediculously inadequate for anything close to "social media" - or user-generated content (due to its depenance on- and design of- the caching, mostly).

So, WP may be some "everything platform" by popularity and common use. But it's both bad at this and never predetermined to be that.
Performance tunes are very often illegal in the US for messing with emissions stuff. The EPA have been cracking down HARD lately.

I can see a future where auto manufacturers lobby to make “unlocking” features highly illegal due to the DMCA or some other.
> Cigars and pipes have quite a nice taste and aroma.

They really don't
I have little faith that twitter is accurately reporting like counts, given that inventing bigger numbers is convincing people to stay there.
> The AI becomes significantly more useful if it understands your digital life more.

"Useful" is misleading. It should be "useful for the big corps for entrenching you further into proprietary technology so that they can take advantage of you later".
Happy to answer questions!
All do. Nothing new - so what's your solution?
Just Launched: Bulk Document Generation with Google Sheets
Pincites (YC S23) is hiring a founding engineer to build legal AI agents (Remote)
I’m grateful for my librarian.
Managing chronic disease burden is a component of healthcare

The fact that Americans intuit that it’s not is a worrying sign of just how broken our system is
My understanding of GDPR law is that the fine is up to EUR 20M per breach. I have some experience with the data protection culture in Germany and it's frankly excessive at times. It's incredible that this was able to happen at this scale. In theory the company could be bankrupted by fines if the letter of the law is followed, never mind the reputational implications for a company only just getting over the emissions scandal.
I just bought a Lootoo PAW6K after getting fed up with the iPhone and the headphone plug adapter.

This player has its own OS, no WiFi or only for firmware upgrades. Has no apps and boots up under three seconds and large capacity from SD Card. The best is it just plays.

What's even cooler is that it's a DAC so I can have my headphones plugged in to it and then use Spotify/Service to stream to the player.

Expensive though at $1000 but just how I want it. My headphones decoupled from my mobile phone.
We’re not ok with it, but this is where unlimited lobbying has gotten us.

The rich and powerful companies literally make the laws they want.
The second version of Apple wireless keyboard is closer than the newer ones, to my tastes anyway. It's softer than current MacBook keyboards but has slightly more travel so I'm not sure it's what you're looking for.
Can someone point me in the right direction on how cars submit the telemetry in the first place?

Clearly some cellular technology is in use but this would require an eSIM or something from your local carrier. Do modern cars have "free internet" baked into them somehow that lets them upload this data? Whats the technology/protocol called ? How does it work in foreign countries with different carriers.
I'd add my own piece of advice: try to avoid violent growth. Slapping an adapter on something is usually a kind of violent growth. An adapter might 100x your pool of potential users overnight, but it can also easily lead to situations where people depend on your product but have expectations that you are completely unaware of, thus blocking you off from the next tier of growth.
You look at the electricity bill. If it's much higher than usual, it's most probably either a BTC mining operation or an underground Cannabis farm.
Unimaginable Sums of Money: For Fun And Profit
> really nice API

Excuse me? SAF is awful and source of constant complaints from developers.
All so they can better target ads to you. Who needs cookies?
I don't know about that... There's a whole industry of performance parts that softly depend on ECU modifications. There's much less of an incentive to swap parts if your ECU doesn't keep up with the performance gains.

But you are absolutely right on the loss of money aspect.